Letter: Wold psychiatric association and Soviet psychiatry.

World Psychiatric Association perspectives on person-centered psychiatry and medicine

The status of psychiatry around the world, as perceived during the first decade of this millennium reflects the great opportunities and challenges for understanding the human mind. We have learned much about neurotransmission, learning, memory, and brain development, and these basic insights have made possible the design of several classes of psychoactive drugs and psychosocial techniques for t...

Comparing Soviet and Chinese political psychiatry.

The international campaign against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union spanned a period of 20 years. It started roughly in the beginning of the 1970s when the Moscow-based dissident Vladimir Bukovsky sent the first documentation to the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and ended in 1991 when the same WPA sent a mission to the Soviet Union to investigate whether the political...

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Purpose€€ To determine the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in a representative sample of children and adolescents living in Santiago, Chile, as part of a national sample. Method€€ Subjects aged 4–18 were selected using a stratified multistage design. First, ten municipalities/comunas of Santiago were selected; then the blocks, homes, and child or adolescent to be interviewed were cho...

[Letter: Psychiatric classification of psychiatric patients].

Law, Theory, and Politics: The Dilemma of Soviet Psychiatry